Why Did the 2000s Look Like That?
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- Опубліковано 19 тра 2024
- Y2K is a term associated with a broad range of different aesthetics and subcategories from the 2000s. Looking at examples like Chromcore, Gen-X Soft Club, McBling, and various other design trends, we attempt to chronicle some of the most memorable, and the most weird...
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CONTENT
0:00 Intro
0:53 Why is Everything Chrome?
2:38 The Clear Craze
3:56 Gaming Aesthetics
5:37 Metalheart?
6:17 Gen X Soft Club
7:02 Fashion
7:55 My Thoughts
8:42 Conclusion
Correction: 2:56 should just be Gameboy, not the advance (GBA). The original Gameboy model was made translucent as part of the "Play it Loud" product line after its initial release. A better (and more factually correct) example of clear tech in the 80s is the Unisonic 6900 corded telephone from 1987.
yeah, u got me head scratching real hard there. gj clearing the error. tho i miss those days youtube had in video text annotations where u could have text bubbles post-upload to make like "video comments" from the uploader.
@m00rtin4 Yeah I really wish they still had features like that, would seriously come in handy
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I prefer when everything was white You know with the xbox 360 from the 1930'sOr like when everything was gloss black with the xbox one from you know the 1840's
Or when everything was matte black with the xbox series s/x you know from the 1950's
I feel like the minimal aesthetics today come from companies just being cheap.
I think it comes more from the dumbing down of society. People don't have the attention span to look at anything with flair. Just look up the evolution of company logos. Everything has to look like an app icon now. Remove words. Look up "globohomo art" and tell me that's not the manifestation of adult child brain.
yep, to keep more money to themselves
That's definitely the case with cars. It's easier to put all the secondary controls through a touchscreen instead of cutting molds for a dashboard's worth of physical knobs, buttons and switches.
@@nlpnt Exactly! Right on the mark! They don't bother to make their products reliable anymore.
@@Ambro-xh2qp is it right to be born in 2008 mainly having 2010s nostalgia and i found the 2000s MUCH more a appealing ? .
Hope gods glory will make the internet decentralized again , and social medias returning to be primitive not distractfull , companys to cool down their evil greed , Y2k ftuitiger aero to comeback evolved to look less dated .
Marketing. Companies wanted to look futuristic and "ahead of the curve". The dawn of the a new century was the perfect time to do that.
Which really was a dawn of a new millennium
@@jayhezexel ah yes, I should have said that.
I remember looking at all this stuff when I discovered the internet back then for the first time like late 2000s
I found this whole aesthetic change a little off like how companies went from y2k to more Minimalism sort of stuff which made me miss that era
Sometimes this design got abandoned sometimes it returns with a similar feel like the rog ally.
the whole Y2K era was just the perfect time to be a young child... just take me back
I agree. I missed so much tho cuz I was a poor kid, like that playsation store like wtf I didn't know that was a thing haha. But like, walking around with my Sony Walkman (lucky Xmas gift lol) also chrome, hanging out with friends...sigh
What a bizarre statement!
Lol it was more fun as a teenager
@@vidmasterK1 its not that bizarre, I enjoyed it as a kid. As you can see in the video, everything was just more colourful, customizable, and unique. Choosing all your widgets and themes on Windows xp and Windows Vista / 7 alone was way more fun than what we have in Windows 10
Having these future images and living near a tech hub was like living in an eerie chunk of the future without knowing it.
I felt like i was living more in the future in 2000 then now in 2024
Exactly lol
Exactly. 2024 just feels like a post futuristic dystopia
@@bryanna_renaee I think we're all collectively starting to realise that it absolutely is
@@bryanna_renaeebhaha with the ai taking jobs and stuff, definitely.
Exactly my thought.
We had no idea how happy were, how good things were..
Back during the war on terror
@@aeroblu2002 and your attitude is why we still have problems
@@-Astro-- the dark side of nostalgia buddy
Now we all face terror... great, happy days 👍
@@aeroblu2002 Meh, that was more just an American problem
Honestly, I would be very happy if the world just got stuck in the late 90s and early 2000s. Sure, I will miss the smartphones that combine 10 gadgets of that era into your pocket but there was just that charm of having to go to different places to get what you wanted: library, movie rental stores, photostudios, arcades, Internet clubs and so on. People actually socialized more because of that.
Smartphones are worst thing that hapenned to society. I would get rid of them in a second.
Aye. I agree. The pinnacle balance of the "human merged with technology" lifestyle, imo. 😃
@@Spungebobonicerocks Something I've said back in 2016 it made the whole world worse yet easily accessible, it ruined marriages and relationships more.
well smart phones allowed us to communicate from country to country without even knowing each other like im commenting here. and to be very honest that era and this era isnt that different the only difference is back then people have very less knowledge so have very low expectations and when new things launch they make them excited but now we have high expectations cause we have knowledge more thn we need bcz of internet in our hand that have ruined the part of excitement
"if the world just got stuck in the late 90s and early 2000s" Damn, it's almost as if they made a movie like that where 1999 was called the pinnacle of human civilization.
Y2K is my favorite aesethetic I still remember my uncle showing me the matrix when I was 6 and somthing about the aesethetic really clicked in for me.
Same, i also LOVE the silver aesthetics in music videos, makes me wanna live in it.
Did your parents or legal guardians approve of him showing the movie to you at that age? I mean, I’m in the same boat, my dad showed me that movie when I was 3 or 4 years old
@@PikeTheFalcon tbh I'm not sure lmao my parents are strict as hell it's just strange that it became one of my early memorys watching it
@@PikeTheFalcon lol
Frutiger aero
The futurism of the late 90s-early 2000s was so creative and interesting. The designs, music (particularly electronic) and other media coming out of that era was really incredible. You could tell that people were optimistic and hopeful about the future with those sorts of visions. What a shame that we let em down, man.
Aphex Twin, Sweet Trip and various other artists made some great futuristic and unique albums in the 90s-2000s. Can't forget a very underrated futuristic hip-hop album "3030" by Deltron 3030. You should check it out.
Love Metalheart. Y2K was cool. Now all we have is flat modern boring stuff.
that's what we get for wanting a screen small enough to shove in our pocket, and sacrificing all graphic detail in the process.
I remember y2k and i honestly like modern design more in general lol.
@@shiytp Why you use it
Y2K and Frutiger Aero. Modern minimalist corporate art alegra looks awful, unappealing, and bland.
Is it weird that when I saw stuff like that, incubus started playing in my head, the faint taste of OG drinks that they ruined today...smells too those come into my head, like Adidas move haha
Those Y2K and early 2000s aesthetics look way much cooler than the aesthetics of today. Also, as a guy who wants to create his own independent comic books I would definitely bring back the Y2K aesthetic and put it into my own art really give it a major edge.
If you have the passion to do it then definitely do it mate
I was a young teenager in 2000 and remember it all well, especially the tech/gaming stuff - it was a FUN time to be a kid/teen
I really wish companies made translucent plastic versions of electronics again. I’ll never forget being young and going to a cousins house who had a green translucent nintendo 64 and having my mind blown as I’d never even knew they existed. Such a beautiful aesthetic that would be awesome to see on newer consoles and phones even.
So much for the environtment bro
@@divinodayacap3313 is tinted plastic worse than regular plastic that they already use?
I want to go back
We all do brother, one day you’ll say the same about today!
@@whoever79I doubt it. There’s nothing about today I enjoy at all. I’ll only miss being younger
Why?
@@SlapStyleAnimsI feel you
@@SlapStyleAnims were you as fond of the 2000's back then as much as you are fond of the 2000's now?
Can't believe that was 24 years ago...
i miss it. i miss the internet still feeling a little bit lawless and being able to find little corners of the web untouched by algorithms and advertising. i miss buying something and owning it for life without having to pay monthly subscriptions. i miss not having instant answers to everything a click away, and actually having to take the time to discover things myself. i miss the aesthetics. i miss the pixels. i miss the slower pace.
You worded it perfectly
Early internet had some crazy stuff. Now the feds have shut down most of those sites. There’s things I remember seeing that have been completely scrubbed from the face of the internet. Pages of history wiped clean never to be seen by future generations.
You can still do that. I do. You choose not to.
I tried to reply to your comment with some sensitive info regarding the “lawless” era of the internet and it got auto-deleted. Shows how pathetic the modern internet has become.
True man
Often design is influenced by the latest technology
2000s. Chrome influenced by more advanced 3D rendering
1980s: Neon influenced by the colors computers could display at that time
Now: Minimalism influenced by needing wires less thanks to stronger Wi-FI, Bluetooth
Honestly if it were possible I’d love to use entirely 2000s era stuff, or at least more rugged wired stuff. Something about physical wires running to and fro just clicks with my brain better, and if I didn’t have to worry about ease of use or fire risk I’d love to have a 2000s era setup. It just feels oddly comfy to me, like settling down at a relatives house as a kid kind of comfy and safe.
I was born in 2004 too, so I don’t really have any connection to the era. Just like the aesthetic I guess.
Some excellent points. I remember in the late 90's, there was this brief, albeit more colorful, cosmic revival in vogue.
When talking with my sister as to why, we realized it happened around the same time the first Martian rover had successfully landed on Mars, for instance.
The golden era of EVERYTHING.
the amount of times i heard this from 70s, 80s and 90s babies
The silver/chrome era of EVERYTHING
The fact that I’ll never be able to relive this time
😢
Another reason that Chromecore became popular is that computer-controlled printing presses got a lot better at reproducing neutral grey (chrome) and full color in the same pass. Before that, chrome tended to have a blue or green cast.
chromecore and frutiger aero were such great aesthetics
homies call everything a core like dang if im poopin in the bathroom call that toiletcore? i sware
I miss y2k toiletcore
Core is just the replacement for chic. Toilet chic, cottage chic, it still makes sense.
@@Vvewajust not the same anymore 😞
@@ccricerslol i always thought it was a play on the word 'decor'
Sounds like a comedy genre for toilet humor
"Been around since the 80's in things like the game boy advance " My guy the GBA is from 2001
Yeah hearing that made me a little skeptical of everything else I heard in the video. That one was waaaaaay off.
And the Nintendo DS 2004
Tell me you wasn't born yet without telling me you wasn't born yet 😂
Take it easy on bro, he was born in '05
@@edgardls95 fair enough I guess
Early 2000s, a time when technology was rapidly evolving and urban landscapes were dominated by towering skyscrapers and bustling corporate environments. This era represents a unique blend of classic and modern elements, with the emergence of new technologies like PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants) , the widespread use of music CDs, and the game console s
My feelings towards this period may stem from a sense of excitement and possibility, as the world was on the cusp of major technological advancements that would shape the way we live and interact with each other. The sleek, futuristic aesthetics of tall buildings and the fast-paced corporate world might evoke a sense of nostalgia for a time when the future seemed full of promise and potential.
At the same time, there's likely a hint of sentimentality for the simplicity and tangibility of technology like PDAs and CDs, which offered a more tactile and personal experience compared to today's digital devices. This combination of nostalgia for both the modern and the classic aspects of the early 2000s can create a unique and deeply nostalgic feeling, transporting you back to a time when the world was both familiar and full of endless possibilities.
The good old days. Early 90s early 2000s we’re such a great time to grow up in as a kid, I’m so grateful I got to experience it.
To put all my thoughts into a few words....
I miss this aesthetic.
What a time to be alive
its true its weird how back then transparent colored things were cool and the best and now when we see them its more like there worse and a knock of because they are transparent
Petition to bring back translucent electronics
It's pretty ironic that the aesthetics and designs for pretty much anything 20 years ago actually looked more sci-fi than they do now. Although the technology itself definitely is more sci-fi now, we're already in the age of AI and robots.
Yeah, the Y2K aesthetic, I actually remember getting interviewed by Vice for a couple years ago on behalf of the Aesthetics Wiki... and I best described it and all of the splinter aesthetics that branched off from it as "the future that never was". Seeing this video, I 100% still stand by that.
I love album covers and advertisment with that Gen X Soft Club aesthetics. It looks so effortless and stylish but has this indistinguishable late 90s early 00s vibe
Media design at that time also felt a lot more creative and original than today. Today everybody trys so hard to look clean and minimalistic and that's boring.
i love the early 2000’s chrome! it’s what i grew up with, my mp3 player is chrome, my gamecube, OG ds and GBA SP are all the platinum shells as well as my ps2 super slim. i have so much nostalgia for the 90’s clear tech/chrome 2000’s tech
One can argue that technically the "Clear Craze" is still very popular to this day
Inside of Prisons where They allow Guards to see if the Prisoners have hide something secretly inside Their devices or not
They thought we were going to be futuristic and sophisticated; instead, we're arguing about whether or not high school students can live as cats.
What? Lol
No one’s arguing about that people like you just love falling for rage bait
He's right you know.
'edgier version of cybercore' *'By the Way' by Red Hot Chili Peppers plays
2000s were peak marketing design.
We would celebrate new years at my dad’s side of the family every year. So for the last night of 1999, I was 10, my aunts house was packed. My dad and uncle had the bright idea to kill the power to the house once the ball dropped 😂 Y2K! 😱 it was hilarious.
I totally remember a lot of these metallic aesthetics from the Y2K era. I remember thinking it looked very modern (not just futuristic), yet it was a quarter of a century ago.
Everything was so colorful and felt more alive back in the early 2000's, shame that now everything is so minimalistic and void of any colors
Honestly I was never too TOO much of a fan of the 90's XTREME aesthetic... but this? This stood the test of time by surviving through 3 decades. Gimme more of this, please, my tech CEO godkings who decide our fate.
2000 tech area was so cool im glad i got a lil taste of it being born in 2001
It was a good time
I love the 90s/ 00s
I wonder if the young people who were born after like this aesthetic? I'm curious because being a kid back then felt like I was living the future with chrome/translucent tech and everything from menus, posters and ads looked more stylish compared to now where everything looks so minimalist like style has taken a back seat for idk mass production maybe or accessibility? Am I just nostalgic because if not why aren't we seeing any of these return? I'd have thought that with all the stylish scifi franchises we've grown up with things would look more futuristic
Thanks for covering this’ I loved this era I have some JBL airpod things that have a purple transparent case! Reminds me of those times < 3
Gen X Soft Club!? Never knew it had a name but it’s sooo 1994-2001 feel to it. Remember seeing it so much. Nostalgic over it, slightly.
such a nice trip down memory lane. Well done.
Great take - I’ve kind of had this on my mind for a while
Love your channel! Keep up the amazing work
Seeing how things are now, I realize how grateful I should be to have been born in 1989. It was such a great time to grow up. To get to be a kid. The world seemed to have so many creative outlets & forms of expression. Ways for kids, teens and adults could interact with our surroundings. We had a foundational environment. One that had places to go, things to do, area's with unique style & very creative design. I really miss the Vibe & Approach of that Era. Looking back with hindsight it really did feel like things treated us all like it respected our intelligence, our time & what kind of experience we were going to have. While also providing outlets in our society that helped us feel like a kid inside no matter what age we were. It felt like things acknowledged you. You are a customer, a fan, a person. In a hyper capitalistic society, the least they can do is use basic decency to try and make us feel like they care if we have a good time because without us they can't succeed. The creativity that came from that era really put effort into it's ingenuity. It's almost like every everything took pride in who could find the most creative and unique ways to do things, design things, come up with ways people could enjoy engaging with their company.
For things to go from that 90's-Y2K era, to then shift to this bland, soulless, minimalistic approach feels very Dystopian. I really hope we find a way to reconnect with these core things that we clearly saw positive benefits having it apart of our society. The world really needs this right now. Look how soulless so much has become nowadays? Look at the horrible aesthetics, poor quality & poor creative design in modern cities. Even our shows, movies, & video games need a revolution. Things have become so bland, bleek, and minimalistic to the point that it doesn't even make since. Most Old house's/building's/únique shop's are gone. Interesting oddities like drive in movie theaters, indoor fun zones, arcade's, magazines that included a demo disc so you can try out game's. You could go to blockbuster/Hollywood video, McDonald's had N64's & crazy fun zones & covered in wacky art all over. We could preview music before buying it, they had an amazing selection of well made kid's toy's, Roller Rink's, Garbage pale kid's card's. You get the point. Bring back Retro-Futurism. Bring back Y2K Vibes. ANYTHING compared to this current Dystopian toxic positivity. Our society feels more lost now then it ever has. Basic living has never been so unaffordable. Society is solely focused on unhealthy capitalistic agendas. Where anything that isn't constantly increasing profits or gaining investors, is a failure and has no value to society..
Our Quality of Life should be better than this. Basic living shouldn't be this unaffordable. People should be able to have fun, dork around, have things that engage them. The list goes on. Bring me back to the 90's.
It's a shame we didn't know how good we had it growing up, I used to complain about my small city and say it was boring. There was so much more to do here when I was a kid, now all of my old places are gone to never return. I'm from 89 as well, what a drastic decline we've watched in our short 35 years.
Spot on with everything you said. Why is everything _so_ soulless and overly digital and clinically sterile today? Modern mainstream movies and music are the absolute worst offenders of this; it's like there is no human touch behind anything, it's all just so over-processed. I also miss the slow spread of information which meant that there was more uncertainty and mystique in the air, urban myths and legends surrounding your hometown or happenings near you which you only became aware of by word of mouth, no internet to instantly fact-check or debunk anything. Now every question or uncertainty can be solved in under 1 minute by simply checking your phone, nothing is left to the imagination.
It’s been hyper capitalist for a long time, you just didn’t realize it growing up. Older people said the same thing about the 2000s.
You just unlocked a core memory from my childhood in 2000!
I remember this shop in San Francisco! I played Resident Evil: Survivor and Dino Crysis 2 there!!
The shot at 5:00 that's exactly how I remember the setup!
I always thought it was a Sony headquarters or something, but It did make feel excited for the future of Playstation
Very well pace and eddited vid! It looks profetional! The improvement is low key mental!
Thanks Jim, have been focusing on the editing a lot!
I wish you could do a video about the 80’s and the space sounds they always used in commercials
long live chromecore! haha man everything that came out from 99-04 just looked so cool and futuristic. It was just a bit later and the colors didn't match the aesthetics mentioned but I remember when the GameCube came out and how it looked felt super futuristic!
Photoshop’s layer effects, vector curved lettering and graphics, and auto-tween animation was the AI art of its day.
I like to describe the y2k aesthetic as one of hope. So much of it was artist interpretations of the future brought to life in wacky and imaginative motifs and designs. But now we find ourselves in an era of corporate complacency. Nobody's fighting to stand out because many if the imagery we find today is just tried and proven to be good enough and there's not much thought going into it "Hey, we're x company and they'll buy it anyways.". What a disappointing future...
I just miss the sense of discovery and feeling like we were in the midst of a revolution. Now society and technology seems to have plateaued in recent years.
Thank you for shouting out Hot Wheels Velocity X! My favorite game from my childhood and very fitting for the time!
The Metalheart aesthetic actually made a comeback back in like 2017 onwards with the rise Neo Y2K subcultures within music.
Volant (aka Nuphory) and Virtual Self are two artists that helped bring it back along with many other Y2K inspired visuals 🙏
The arrival of the internet sparked a huge interest in graphic design and I think designers got a little too eager to cram in as many features of their new toy (Photoshop) into their designs.
7:55 When ever I mention Y2K someone got mad at me thinking I was talking about the Y2K Bug, when I was only using it as a abbreviation of the year two thousand.
Sad to see the series is over have been great!!
Half Life 2 and Portal 1 have a very Gen X soft club aesthetic. Half Life 2 especially city 17 has always reminded me of the OK Computer cover.
A special place in our hearts.
2:32 I checked out that Eyewitness Book of the future from my school library more times than I would ever be able to realistically count.
I loved those kinda books
I was 9-10 in 2000 I miss being a kid. And remember every single bit of it
Ah the 2000s, Good Old Days. 👌
This era wanted to show off what futuristic technologies were yet to come because we were an optimistic society back then. Now we mask the potential technologies of the future behind a mundane facade, because anything more stimulating would remind us of the inevitability of horrific ends that those technologies will become the means to.
As a person who lived through this era (I turned 10 in 2002) I can honestly say the REASON technology looked this was the change to organic shapes. See, tech from the 80s and 90s had been very angular, machine-like and almost aesthetically brutal. As time went on through the 90s the thought process generally was, as technology got better it would meld itself more to our human ways, lifestyles and aesthetic. Which is why you say the angular shapes of things like the SEGA Genesis and Super Nintendo gone in favor of more curvy and organic looking Dreamcasts and Xboxes. The UIs and GUIs of these technologies obviously followed.
That Busta and Janet Jackson song is so dope. I was just listening to it the other day. Even rewatched the music video. Nostalgic 😁
Omg, i had an Aiwa stereo and headphones that were chrome and shiny blue. It brings me back to my childhood and the smells, thoughts, and feelings with it. Idk why this vid made me have a time warp lol
I remember also that in 1998-99 there was kinda like a green cyberpunk aesthetic in movies like matrix or swordfish
Yes i remeber that to, happy to see someone finally find word for it! 🤝
You got a like from for just having hot wheels velocity X. That game was awesome! Especially the battle mode!
For gaming, the G-Force game(I have the PSP version) has seemingly holographic glowing buttons, "futury" digital beeping and clicking when one is selected and hacking segments that resemble the screens of randoms ghostly digits falling from the top, but was more like a stream of faded random symbols where you had to match the glowing square, cross, circle and triangle symbols when they came down.
imagine being a successful business man in the early 2000s and snorting blow everyday
One thing no one talks about is the alien mania going on in the late 90s. You had blockbuster movies like "independence day", " men in black", "mars attacks" "galaxy quest" and many others. Shows like "x-files" where at the top in ratings.
Even 90210 got into it in one episode Claire and David are looking for UFOS.
Fox even did a "true" Alien autopsy that stirred up people very briefly and was revealed to be a stunt. Cartman got his famous probe. Even in video games: in crash bandicoot wrapped had you hit an alien sign to get a hidden level and Spyro 2 had a level where you go after UFOS. Then one day it all died as quickly as it began. No one talks about the madness anymore.
2000s was special
I enjoy watching this video, simplicity of that time was beautiful we have to take lessons from the past and implement them in our lives.
I was literally thinking of that chrome aesthetic earlier at work today lol, everytime I hear the All Around the World, I think of chrome core
i’m glad you are talking about metalheart
6:35 Big ups Tresor, awesome Techno label
Sorry for being nitpicky but this cyber aesthetic isn’t what the 2000s looked like, it was a late 90s phenomenon tied to the new millennium coming. Yes the aesthetic bled into the first one or two years or so of the 00s because pop culture had a much longer lead time then but it was in essence just what the late 90s looked like. I always say the 90s only ended in 2001 lol because that’s when this look really took its last few gasps
Oh man, 5:52 reminds me of my days learning photoshop making similar forum "signatures"
I had (still have, actually) a silver phone in the early 2000's with an infoglobe attached to it which displayed text in blue as holographic-looking lights that would spin around and animate. You can find videos of these. It makes me of this style.
I wish everything looked like that again
I miss this era even though I was bullied the entire time and didn’t have a phone or any gaming device besides a PSP. I wish I could’ve been able to socialize more instead of kept inside of the house and isolated from any friends.
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As far as I could trace back it’s origins with the aid of chatgpt, the 90’s transparent plastic is a retrofuturistic aesthetic, one exposing technology and circuitry as new, but free in a way now that it was more accessible.
The 00’s silver metal aesthetic had both come as a new-millennia, almost spaceship-like themed expression, but was a far more serious feeling given that it was the predominant aesthetic near, during and after 9/11, so it reflected part of the American sentiment.
i just love looking at these typa things idk ehy
This is an awesome vid!
Yeah, I see a lot of things dictated like this, with there being an essential look and whatnot...💁🏻💯✔️
The best era
I miss the ugliness of early 2000s internet realm
*Fancyness
nice video. It was cool, great, kind, awesome, chill, good
I only remember late 2009 but i gotta say, i feel nostalgia for 2000s for some weird reason idk why.
Gen X Soft Club album covers are like the perfect balance of classic 50s and 60s vinyl, Y2K, and Japanese visual art influence all rolled into one
This video almost made me cry man. I remember these aesthetics so much and I had a lot of positive outlook for the future and high expectations. It feels like it was yesterday. I felt so safe and relaxed back then.
Awesome i always wondered about this
I'm a huge enthusiast on Y2K fashion, and that whole fashion trend from that period was supposed to represent that future since the 90s were coming to an end and we were now getting ready to go into the new millennium with this futuristic mindset. Sega Dreamcast vibe, design, the iMacs, the edgy tribal designs on clothing, and everything felt so connected to that era for me. Unfortunately, Y2K was the last "total" aesthetic, and we'll never see anything like that again because of the internet.
Hah I had one of the translucent green home phone with the matching answering machine.
V-TEC! Thought I was BALLIN!